ABSTRACT

This is the sixth edition of a textbook that has been instrumental in introducing a generation of students to the history of economic thought. It charts the development of economics from its establishment as an analytical discipline in the eighteenth century through to the late twentieth century. The book discusses the work of, amongst others: Ricardo, Malthus, Marx, Walras, Marshall and Keynes as well as the institutionalists, the Chicago School and the emergence of econometrics. This edition has been fully revised and updated and includes:
* chronologies of the key dates in the development of economics
* extracts from original texts
* an examination of how the study of the history of economic thought impinges upon modern thinking.

part |6 pages

Part I: Preclassical Economics

chapter 2|21 pages

The Origins of Analytical Economics

chapter 3|20 pages

The Transition to Classical Economics

part |5 pages

Preface to the sixth edition ix Part /1/ The Critics of Classicism

part 4|6 pages

Physiocracy: the beginning of The Neoclassical Tradition, 1890-1945

part 8|5 pages

Ricardo, Senior and John Stuart Mill: Part V international trade, monetary The Dissent from Neoclassicism, theory and method in economic 1890-1945

part |8 pages

Part VI: Beyond High Theory